According to the Seminole Clerk of Courts website, Avery has not obtained an attorney.Īltamonte Springs Police discovered evidence that a firearm belonging to Avery had been left loaded in a child’s “Paw Patrol” backpack on the floor of the couple’s bedroom, a release from the State Attorney’s Office for Brevard and Seminole counties said. His next court date is set for November 23.
According to police, a person on the call dialed 911 after seeing a toddler in the background and hearing a noise just before Lynn fell backward and didn’t return to the call.Īvery had an initial court appearance Wednesday and is being held without bond, court records show. The oldest was in the living room and the other four were in the bedroom when they found a small semiautomatic handgun in their mother's purse, police said.Lynn, 21, was on a video conference call with coworkers when she was shot in the head, the Altamonte Springs Police Department said. The only other people in the apartment at the time of the shooting were Henderson's five children. The 25-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Police were called to an apartment in Cornelius on Monday night and found the mother, Gabriel Alexis Henderson, in a back bedroom, according to a police press release. Guns are so prevalent in this country now that “Parricide by toddler firearm misadventure” could now a countable statistic.Ī North Carolina mother of five was accidentally killed and her youngest child injured when her children found a gun in her purse. A woman is working from home on a Zoom call, and her four-year old finds an unsecured weapon, shoots her in the head, and kills her.īut this is not even the first case of a toddler killing a mother with a firearm this year.
I am trying, and failing to wrap my head around this story. Speaking just for me, if I see one co-worker get killed on Zoom, I am going on vacation.Īnd according to Everytown for Gun Safety, there were at least 369 unintentional shooting by children younger than 18 last year alone, or about one per day. The child is believed to have somehow gained access to his father’s weapon, and thus far no charges have been filed.
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